Court of King's Bench of Manitoba
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- (~X) = approximate number of published decisions according to CanLII as of October 2018, unless otherwise indicated.
Current Justices
(Full complement of 22)[1]
Manitoba Pop. (2021): 1.3 million
Pop. per Justice: ~59k
Name [2][3][4] | Jurisdiction | Appointed | Nominated By | Prior Position(s) | Other Details |
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Chief Justice Glenn D. Joyal [5] [6] | General | June 22, 2007 (Judge) 2011 (Chief) |
Harper (Judge & Chief) | Provincial Court | Published Criminal Decisions (~37) |
Associate Chief Justice Shane Perlmutter | General | February 3, 2011 | Harper | Published Criminal Decisions (~25) | |
Justice Joan G. McKelvey | General | September 27, 2001 | Chrétien | Published criminal decisions (~62) | |
Justice Shawn D. Greenberg | General | October 28, 2003 | Chrétien | Published criminal decisions (~89) | |
Justice Robert G. Cummings [7] | General | July 31, 2008 | Harper | Provincial Court Judge (1994 to 2008) private practice Called to bar (1977) |
Published criminal decisions (~33) |
Justice Christopher W. Martin [8] | General | January 22, 2009 | Harper | Sole practitioner (2007 to 2009) United Grain Growers Ltd (1994 to 2007) Wolch, Pinx, Tapper, Scurfield (1983 to 1994) Called to bar (1983) |
Published criminal decisions (~55) |
Justice Robert Dewar | General | September 9, 2009 | Harper | Thompson Dorfman Sweatman Called to bar (1974) |
Published criminal decisions (~8) |
Justice Richard Saull [9] | General | February 10, 2010 | Harper | Crown attorney Called to bar (1979) U of M |
Published criminal decisions (~5) |
Justice Gerald Chartier | General | September 30, 2010 | Harper / Nicholson (CPC) | Published criminal decisions (~9) | |
Justice Herbert Rempel [10] | General | March 7, 2013 | Harper / Nicholson (CPC) | Family Division (Dec 2, 2011 to 2013) Pullan Kammerloch Frolingerin Called to bar (1988) |
Published criminal decisions (~4) |
Justice Sheldon W. Lanchbery [11] | General | June 6, 2013 | Harper | sole practitioner (1981 to 2013) Called to bar (1980) |
Published criminal decisions (~1) |
Justice James G. Edmond [12] | General | October 1, 2013 | Harper | Thompson Dorfman Sweatmann LLP Called to bar (1982) |
Published criminal decisions (~9) |
Justice Victor E. Toews [13] | General | March 7, 2014 | Harper | Member of Parliament (1995 to 2013) Director of Constitutional Law (1987-1991) Crown Attorney (1977-1979) Called to bar (1977) |
Published criminal decisions (~41) |
Justice Sadie Bond [14] | General | April 11, 2014 | Harper | PPSC Crown Maureen Forestell Legal Aid Called to bar (~1996) |
Published criminal decisions (~11) |
Justice Sandra Zinchuk [15] | General | February 26, 2015 | Harper / MacKay (CPC) | Monk Goodwin LLP (1995 to 2015) Called to bar (~1995) |
Published criminal decisions (~2) |
Justice David J. Kroft [16] | General | October 20, 2016 | J. Trudeau / Wilson-Raybould (Lib) | Fillmore Riley LLP (1990 to 2016) Called to bar (1990) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) |
Justice Candace Grammond [17] | General | October 20, 2016 | J. Trudeau / Wilson-Raybould (Lib) | Pitblado LLP (1999 to 2016) Called to bar (1999) |
Published criminal decisions (~1) Judicial Questionnaire |
Justice Scott Abel [18] | Brandon | December 19, 2017 | J. Trudeau / Wilson-Raybould (Lib) | Paterson Patterson Wyman and Abel Sinclair and Associates Called to bar (1997) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) |
Justice R Kenneth Champagne [19] | Winnipeg | April 4, 2018 | J. Trudeau / Wilson-Raybould (Lib) | Provincial Court (2005 to 2018) Crown attorney (1994 to 2005) Called to bar (1994) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) Judicial Questionnaire |
Justice Jeffrey F. Harris [20] | Winnipeg | October 9, 2018 | J. Trudeau / Wilson-Raybould (Lib) | Myers LLP (aboriginal) (1996 to 2018) Keyser, Harris Called to bar (1983) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) |
Justice Shauna McCarthy [21] | Winnipeg | June 27, 2019 | J. Trudeau / Lametti (Lib) | Published criminal decisions (~0) | |
Justice Anne Turner [22] | Winnipeg | June 27, 2019 | J. Trudeau / Lametti (Lib) | PPSC Crown Called to bar (2003) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) |
Family Division
(Full complement of 13)
Name | Jurisdiction | Appointed | Nominated By | Prior Position(s) | Other Details |
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Justice Robert B. Doyle | Family | February 28, 2000 | Chrétien | Published criminal decisions | |
Justice Marilyn E. Goldberg | Family | July 16, 2002 (Judge) July 16, 2017 (sup.) |
Chrétien | Published criminal decisions | |
Justice A. Catherine Everett | Family | November 22, 2006 | Harper | Published criminal decisions | |
Justice Michael A. Thomson | Family | June 1, 2007 | Harper | Published criminal decisions | |
Justice William Johnston | Family | July 30, 2009 | Harper | Published criminal decisions | |
Justice Joan MacPhail [23] | Family | January 22, 2009 | Harper | Director of Family Law Branch of provincial DOJ (1989 to 2009) | Published criminal decisions |
Justice Gwen Hatch | Family | June 6, 2013 | Harper | Published criminal decisions | |
Justice Allan Dueck | Family | May 9, 2014 | Harper | Mercier Dueck (2005 to 2014) Gould Gosner (1997 to 2005) |
Published criminal decisions |
Justice Kaye Dunlop | Family | June 19, 2015 | Harper | Kaye E. Dunlop, Q.C. Law Office (1984 to 2015) | Published criminal decisions |
Justice Regan Thatcher | Family | June 19, 2015 | Harper | Regan Thatcher Law Office (2002 to 2015) | Published criminal decisions |
Justice Lore Mirwaldt | Family | October 20, 2016 | J. Trudeau | Mirwaldt & Gray (1986 to 2016) | Published criminal decisions |
Connie F. Petersen [24] | Winnipeg, Family | October 9, 2018 | J Trudeau | Published criminal decisions | |
Annette J.R. Horst [25] | Winnipeg, Family | October 9, 2018 | J Trudeau | Published criminal decisions |
Supernumerary Justices
The following justices have elected supernumerary status:
Name [26] [27] [28] | Appointed | Supernumerary | Nominated By | Prior Position(s) | Other Details |
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Justice Colleen Suche | July 16, 2002 (Judge) November 19, 2018 (sup.) |
Chrétien | Published criminal decisions (~83) May 4, 2020 | ||
Justice Carr | December 14, 2006 | Published criminal decisions (~0) | |||
Justice Goodman | December 14, 2006 | Published criminal decisions (~0) | |||
Justice Kennedy | December 21, 2004 | Published criminal decisions | |||
Justice Clearwater | July 10, 2007 | Published criminal decisions (~8) | |||
Nathan Nurgitz | June 22, 2004 | Published criminal decisions (~0) | |||
Sylvia Guertin-Riley [29] | September 16, 2006 | Family Divison (1995 to 2006) Riley, Orle, Guertin, Born (1988 to 1995) Schwartz, McJannet & Co Called to bar (1981) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) | ||
Justice John A. Menzies | August 7, 1996 | Published criminal decisions (~45) | |||
Justice Donald M. Little | February 10, 1998 (Family) March 2, 2017 (sup.) |
Published criminal decisions (~0) | |||
Justice Laurie P. Allen | October 6, 1998 | Published criminal decisions | |||
Brenda L. Keyser [30] | October 3, 1995 | Published criminal decisions (~47) | |||
Justice Frank Aquila | Published criminal decisions (~2) | ||||
Justice Deborah J. McCawley | September 17, 1997 | Published criminal decisions | |||
Justice D.N. Abra | ~2007 (Judge) July 10, 2017 (Sup.) |
Published criminal decisions (~17) |
Previous Justices
External links
- Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba website
- Publicly accessible court registry system
- Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba decisions database
- History of Manitoba Judges